April is School Library Month. Today is Library Workers Day, Wednesday is National Bookmobile Day, and Thursday is Support Teen Literature Day. It's a lot to take in, I know! Though most of the world won't even notice this week, library geeks like me love it. I don't need official days to celebrate my library, but it's fun to have them!
The theme for this year's National Library Week is You Belong At Your Library. So why do YOU belong at Abington Community Library? What brings you here? What keeps you coming? I set up a display board right in front of our circulation desk for you our patrons to let us know. Fill out a Post-It note with the reason for why you belong at the library and stick it to our board. I'll be writing a blog post using some of the more unique answers!
On Thursday, we'll be celebrating PA Forward Day here at the library. PA Forward is an action plan created by the Pennsylvania Library Association to promote five essential literacy skills. These skills are Basic Literacy, Information Literacy, Civic & Social Literacy, Health Literacy, and Financial Literacy.
Now, we already have programs that fit with all of these literacies. We have a great variety available to you. If you've noticed, we've started putting the literacy logos on our flyers, such as Civic & Social Literacy on my Afternoon Book Club flyer. PA Forward's goal is to show everyone that "libraries are ideally positioned to become the community centers of information, technology, and learning that will fuel educational and economic opportunity for all citizens" (PA Forward).
On PA Forward Day on Thursday, you'll be able to check out different tables promoting each literacy. We hope that more and more, people will realize how the library can provide essential services free of charge. Take advantage of your library!
Happy National Library Week!
Laura
On behalf of the ACL
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